GM Pact Stops Short of Goals,
Cuts to Come in Material Costs

DETROIT -- Don't look for General Motors Corp. to become as lean as its rivals under its tentative three-year labor contract with the United Auto Workers.

Company officials acknowledge that by 1999 the pact will permit management to get manufacturing efficiency only about halfway to where GM's best competition is now. GM officials say that it will take another three years after that -- until 2002 -- before the company can match...